Johannes Castner
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John McCreery commented on Johannes Castner's blog post Natural Language and the Social Sciences
"Johannes, check out the work of Loet Leydesdorff and his group in Amsterdam. I will also ask around at the Sunbelt conference in Hamburg that I will be attending next weekend."
Sunday
Johannes Castner commented on Johannes Castner's blog post Natural Language and the Social Sciences
"There is an important dimension that I did not discuss earlier--well, there are probably many dimensions, but one comes to mind that is particularly important in economics and political science and while it goes far beyond the study of language, it…"
Saturday
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Friday
Johannes Castner's blog post was featured

Natural Language and the Social Sciences

For my current project, which automates an approach to understanding decision making processes of elites, first developed by Robert Axelrod in the 1970s, I make use of two newly developed computational linguistic tools (see my github profile).Rather than discussing the specifics of my current project, which you can read about here, I will use this space…See More
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Johannes Castner posted a blog post

Natural Language and the Social Sciences

For my current project, which automates an approach to understanding decision making processes of elites, first developed by Robert Axelrod in the 1970s, I make use of two newly developed computational linguistic tools (see my github profile).Rather than discussing the specifics of my current project, which you can read about here, I will use this space…See More
Friday
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GIS in Anthropology

This group is a forum for discussions about the use and practicalities related to GIS and remote sensing in Anthropology. Here is a website with relevant links.
Mar 27
Stephanie Bustamante joined Johannes Castner's group
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Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks

This is a study group of the book Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks, by Alain Barrat, and a discussion group of the book's applications to Economic, Cultural and Social Anthropology as well as to other social sciences.
Dec 8, 2012
Ian Fowler joined Johannes Castner's group
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GIS in Anthropology

This group is a forum for discussions about the use and practicalities related to GIS and remote sensing in Anthropology. Here is a website with relevant links.
Nov 26, 2012
Rubin Zemon joined Johannes Castner's group
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GIS in Anthropology

This group is a forum for discussions about the use and practicalities related to GIS and remote sensing in Anthropology. Here is a website with relevant links.
Nov 18, 2012
John McCreery commented on Johannes Castner's blog post Relational Data on Firms
"Are you familiar with Rob Cross and Robert J. Thomas, _Driving Results Through Social Networks_ Josey-Bass, 2009? If anyone knows about the kind of data you are looking for. It is likely to be these guys. Just a guess on my part, but..."
Jul 7, 2012
John McCreery commented on Johannes Castner's blog post Relational Data on Firms
"Just a thought. Given that you have contacts at Harvard and Columbia, I would start by asking around the business schools."
Jul 6, 2012
Johannes Castner replied to A. Ashkuff's discussion Passing Off Half-Baked Opinions as "Anthropological"
"My point was that we should NOT campaign, but that we should engage in good science instead; I still see Anthropology as a science.  There are some people who work very hard in being serious Anthropologists and instead of arguing and…"
Jul 2, 2012
Johannes Castner replied to A. Ashkuff's discussion Passing Off Half-Baked Opinions as "Anthropological"
"As you may know, so called intelligent design theorists have been trying to employ science to meet their own ideological needs, but legitimate biologists have, for the most part, simply ignored these "theories" as a rational discussion…"
Jun 29, 2012
Patrícia Freire joined Johannes Castner's group
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GIS in Anthropology

This group is a forum for discussions about the use and practicalities related to GIS and remote sensing in Anthropology. Here is a website with relevant links.
Jun 16, 2012
Johannes Castner replied to John McCreery's discussion Model Thinking in the group Theory for Anthropology
"I had the pleasure to partake in his and John Miller's Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science, which was fantastic and yes, I'm in!"
Mar 12, 2012
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Theory for Anthropology

OAC already has a group named Theory in Anthropology, a good place to discuss theories already embraced by anthropologists. This group is, instead, intended for discussion of theory found outside anthropology that anthropologists might find useful.
Mar 12, 2012

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Johannes Castner
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Columbia University and Harvard University
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http://www.columbia.edu/~jac2130

Johannes Castner's Blog

Natural Language and the Social Sciences

For my current project, which automates an approach to understanding decision making processes of elites, first developed by Robert Axelrod in the 1970s, I make use of two newly developed computational linguistic tools (see my github profile).

Rather than discussing the specifics of my current project, which you can read about here, I…

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At 7:58am on October 17, 2011, Keith Hart said…
Welcome to the OAC, Johannes!
 
 
 

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